UTOPIA AIRPORT: PSA timetable dated February 17, 1988 30 YEARS LATER

PSA timetable dated February 17, 1988 30 YEARS LATER

We celebrate today February 17, 2018n, the 40 th anniversary of the publication of the timetable by pacific Southwest Airlines

A brief Introduction

The story of the company is intimately related to kenny Friedkin , who started an unsuccessful charter airlines carrying passengers from El Centro to San Diego.

Undeterred by this failure Kenny Friedkin launched Pacific Southwest in 1949 with a leased DC3 operating a round trip San Diego- Burbank-Oakland.

The company soon expanded to include Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento , Ontario, San Jose , Long Beach, Lake Tahoe, Fresno, Stockton .

With the deregulation act of 1978, the company expanded outside California to Washington State, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico ,Oregon, Idaho and Arizona and launched international services to Mexico

Air California and PSA competed fiercely on the same routes and when air California was acquired by American Airlines in 1986 PSA agreed to merge with USAIR in a deal that was completed in 1987. The last fight was operated on April 8, 1988

The name PSA still survives today In November 1995, the PSA name was given to Jetstream International Airlines, so that US Airways could preserve the PSA name and trademarks. US Airways had acquired Jetstream International in 1987, when it was a subsidiary of Piedmont Airlines.

Southwest Airlines founder Herb Kelleher studied PSA extensively and used many of the airline's ideas to form the corporate culture at Southwest, and even on early flights used the same "Long Legs And Short Nights" theme for stewardesses on board typical Southwest Airlines flights.

FLEET

At the time of the merger , PSA operated a fleet of 4 DC9-31/32 (107 seats) ,